Category: self publishing

Happy Friday! Just a short post I’m putting out as a public service message to authors in case any of you didn’t bother opening or missed yet, another Amazon email notification. But a few days ago, I did open the email that apparently was a ‘reminder’ notification, which actually came in handy, the keyword being ‘reminder’, prompted me to open it.

For those of you who aren’t yet in the know, Amazon will be raising their printing charges on June 20th, informing us that we should check our bookshelves dashboard to find how the price change will affect our royalties. They encourage us to raise our book prices to align with the extra cost, if we choose to. If we don’t, we will receive lower royalties starting June 20th for any print book ordered. Amazon gives good instruction on this page on what to do, but they also offer a ‘one time’ bulk price change they will do for us for all our books if we accept before June 20th. And the later you choose that option, the longer our books will remain at the old prices until the system catches up.

I decided to hit the button and let Amazon do it, and if I choose to raise my books prices to accord better with inflation and everything else in this world going up, I will do that individually once the ‘print cost rush’ is done, later in June. Incidentally, when I hit the accept button to bulk change my books prices, within five minutes I received another email from them telling me it was just done. How’s that for service?

So, like I said, this was a public service message for authors and I wanted to give you all a heads up before the June 20th deadline process change. Lol. Don’t wait until June 20th, gett’er done!

Here’s the link to the page with directions. Amazon Printing Costs Change

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